Steve Jobs - the last interview. Interesting interview. I don't hate him quite as much after seeing that. Still think he is not as complex as some folks makes him out to be, but not as evil. It takes place in 1990 when he was at Next and having to "wing" it. I think his "easy to use paradigm" (given his age and the computer tech at the time), I feel that he miss-judged ease of use with flexibility. I think the Raspberry Pi is less forcing the end user in to a you have to wait for someone to write the application you need, and more of a you can just try out existing bits and glue together something you write to come up with something new. He even mentions the innovations that came out of the home-brew computer club in the way of having some semi-common computer platform and leapfrogging ideas, but he did not see that fact. He made the Apple and Apple II and saw the ecosystem and pooped on it while at Next. even in the interview he wishes the schools would have adopted the Mac sooner. I was a Sinclair guy at the time, but I envied the folks that could afford the Apple II's of the day and hack expansion boards that were sold. I could hack the TS-1000 some (i.e. add a joystick port, blink an LED and some simple things), but things died for the TS-1000 / 2068 too soon and the PC market took off.

Yes, it is. That's one reason I don't really have any problem with guys like
Larry Ellison (asshole extrordinaire, and good for him, he's done his job
well).

I have a problem with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, who were really just pitchmen,
painting themselves as if they were visionary technologists, true-blooded
geeks who were just so good at it that everyone had to be like them.

Bill Gates was little more than a fourth-rate thief that snuck out the back
door one night in the 1970s with Harvard Basic on punch-cards of the Hollerith
variety in a few shoeboxes, reworked it very superficially wherein it reappeared
being "licensed" to Tandy/Shadio-Rack as Microsoft Basic Level One for the
TRS-80. And from that point the rest is "messed up history."

As in - MSDOS really being CP/M with the good stuff stripped out because
His Idiotness just could not see the importance of a multi-user operating
system.

And "WinBlowz" being stolen from so many different sources it boggles the
mind (and requires ANCESTRY.COM) to trace the multi-lineage path of larceny.

If ***any*** of us did, in our professional and/or amateur relationship to
computers and what makes them tick, did anything even ***close*** to the things
perpetrated by that unminitigated asshole, we would
be in **jail**.

It's pretty well understood that despite the well-funded PR spin story that
Gary Kildall blew off IBM and lost his opportunity to sell a CP/M license
to IBM, what really happened was that Bill Hitler Gates had the inside track
because his mom greased the skids for him.